Offsite Programs
Afuera! Publishing Queer Liberation — From the Collection of Archivos Desviados
Printed Matter, 231 11th Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10001
Printed Matter presents Afuera! Publishing Queer Liberation — From the Collection of Archivos Desviados, an exhibition of historical publications and print ephemera published by members of three activist coalitions: the Gay Liberation Front of New York (GLF) and the Third World Gay Revolution (TWGR), two groups that emerged in post-Stonewall New York, as well as the Frente de Liberación Homosexual of Argentina (FLH), Latin America’s first political action group for gays and lesbians, founded in Buenos Aires in 1971. Across a survey of rare magazines, newsletters, posters, flyers, mockups, and original documents, the exhibition traces underrecognized influences and connections between the groups as they energetically published their messages of queer liberation. Works on view are drawn from Archivos Desviados, an ongoing queer archive project led by Juan Queiroz, and marks the first US presentation of materials from the Buenos Aires-originated collection.
Yours 2ly: a year of correspondence and co-authorship
Printed Matter, 231 11th Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10001
The window of Printed Matter’s Chelsea store features a new installation of 2ly, a one-year-long epistolary correspondence between artist duos SM Studio (London) and Florian∞Emden (Leipzig). Initiated in February 2024, each month, one pair wrote and designed a letter that was riso-printed and distributed by Colorama (Berlin), then sent to the other duo and their cohort of mail-art subscribers. Publishing, here, is understood as a shared authorship in every sense. The letters explore a mutual love of writing, drawing, folding and borrowing. They began with this quote: “Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy.” The installation by the creators of 2ly presents the shared visual language that developed over their correspondence.
Sticky Floors: New Edition Launch
25-17 41st Ave, Long Island City, 11101
Book Launch for A Queer Year of Love Letters
38 133 29th St, Brooklyn NY 11232 (near the 25th St stop on the R train)
With readings by Claire Star Finch, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Silas Munro, and Nat Pyper.
A *Co-* Program for Graphic Design LIVE with Inventory Press
38 Ludlow Street (basement)
Please stop by O-R-G at 38 Ludlow Street (basement) for a live reading of A *Co-* Program for Graphic Design where David Reinfurt and cooperators will be performing the entirety of the book. With this reading, the project completes a cycle of sorts in returning the texts—which originated as zoom lectures—into speech, but this time with all invited into the room. Any duration of stay is welcome.
Barbara Kruger: Your property is a rumor of power
Harper’s Books, 504 West 22nd Street
As entry into an exploration of Pictures Generation artists, Harper’s Books is pleased to announce a presentation of six original paste-ups from Barbara Kruger; a dynamic range of her 1980s compositions, from iconic (Surveillance is their busywork) to obscure (You are the long complaint of desire). These collage works provide an intimate glimpse into Kruger’s artistic methodology—developed during her time as designer for both Mademoiselle magazine and leftist book publisher Schocken—with these word/image syntheses serving as the foundation for her multimedia “picture practice,” transformed into large-format gelatin silver prints, billboards, subway posters, postcards, matchbooks, stickers etc. Also on display: one of the resulting photomontage works (Your property is a rumor of power), in its iconic red-painted frame, along with a rotating selection of related catalogues, artist’s books, and ephemera. On view at our Chelsea bookshop (504 West 22nd Street); a few streets south of Printed Matter, Inc.